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The hope is that general readers and scholars will realize a more rounded comprehension of Jack Kerouac.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.
Read MoreToday’s Broadway is at its best presenting blockbuster spectacles like Wolf Hall and An American in Paris.
Read More“We’ve let too many valuable creative people leave for Brooklyn, Austin, and Portland. We need to do something about that.”
Read MoreRoger Grenier wears his considerable learning lightly. His writing is a graceful dance of the intellect.
Read MoreTragedy isn’t when evil triumphs, but when good becomes entangled in its own inevitable contradictions.
Read MoreThere was new music, of which Nelsons’s an uncommonly gifted interpreter; old music that mostly sounded lively; and a big, loud, late-Romantic warhorse that let him and the BSO show off.
Read MoreWhat I’ve learned from three years of research and listening is that the piano concerto is an ideal vehicle with which individual composers can experiment
Read MoreRUBBERBANDance shares some elements of the new-circus genre: a set of very specialized and spectacular physical skills, and the idea that although circusy movement can bombard the audience with thrills, it can also imply human relationships.
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Fuse Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — A Real Tradition, but of What?
The tradition of hybrids is there, for anyone who chooses to use it. Our modern media world makes that tradition accessible in hitherto unimaginable ways.
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